Vulnerability & Exploit Database

SUSE: CVE-2017-16939: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity

CVSS

Published

Added

Modified

7

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

November 24, 2017

December 04, 2017

February 12, 2019

Description

The XFRM dump policy implementation in net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.11 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) via a crafted SO_RCVBUF setsockopt system call in conjunction with XFRM_MSG_GETPOLICY Netlink messages.